List of forum software for the future

Here is a list of forum software that brings something new into the world, as of year 2013.

To list a new piece of forum software, please reply to this topic with a forum name and link — only. Then reply again to your own reply, and clarify what novelties the software brings along. (In this way, [other people's descriptions of why the forum software is innovative] can be upvoted above yours.)

I'll start with Discourse and Project Ivory :-)

Update 2013-03-11: Not terrible many people visit this page. I started another conversation at Reddit instead, here: http://www.reddit.com/r/subofrome/comments/19u88d/best_modern_forum_software_and_features_bulletin/

I think fairly many features seems to be geared towards developers and website admins. For example, have a look at Wedge's "forward thinking" features: http://wedge.org/pub/feats/future/ — it's only about HTML5, jQuery, CSS, MySQL related stuff. Nothing the actual end user knows exists... Theming and security related features, and admin backend related features, are also not very noticeable for the end user.

If it's that much work to "upgrade" the old software to use modern web functionality, I wonder how long it'll take before they have time to add new and noteworthy functionality, from the end users' point of view.

If I were to start using a non-threaded discussion forum, I'd probably choose Discourse, rather than a fork of older forum software. — Discourse apparently already uses the "newest technology", and one can start adding new features, intended for the end user, "directly".

(On the other hand, perhaps Discourse and certainly Debiki are rather lacking, when it comes to the backend and the admin interface. — But the end users won't notice this as much, hmm.)